Wednesday, March 29, 2017

A Greater Lawlessness—Part II, The Trump Presidency

Popular Economics Weekly

Rachel Maddow on last night’s MSNBC show provided evidence that the Trump
White House has been lying from day-one of the Trump Presidency. The White House
had denied it asked that tanks and other armaments be included in the
inauguration parade, when Freedom of Information Pentagon documents surfaced
recently that showed Trump officials had requested that military weapons be
included in the parade.

This is but more evidence that the Trump campaign is determined to cover up
and/or deny culpability for any of their misdeeds, whether real or imagined.

Rachel then concluded that the Trump White House could not be counted on to
provide truthful information on any subject to the media, whom Trump had
declared were “enemies of the people”, after all. So it is up to the public
media to look for the facts elsewhere.

And now we know the Trump campaign, and possibly Trump himself, had done much
more than that in its misinformation campaign during the run up to the November
election, which in some ways puts Russia’s kompromat campaign of slander and
fake news against Hillary Clinton to shame.

More-and-more evidence is surfacing that it was the compromising of FBI
Director Comey that led to Hillary’s downfall. The so-called conspiracy was
one of the misdeeds being investigated by South Manhattan Attorney General
Preete Bahara when he was suddenly fired. It was about the collusion of Trump
campaign officials with the NYPD, and Manhattan FBI officials that had
possession of Anthony Weiner’s laptop in their investigation of his internet
sexting escapades with women.

A January Huffington Post article documented what was a “domestic conspiracy”
to elect Donald Trump. It in effect said information presently public and
available confirms that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump
conspired to intimidate FBI Director James Comey into
interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential
election. This conspiracy was made possible with the assistance of officers
in the New York Police Department and agents within the New York field office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The report went on to say, “As reported
by the New York Times, FBI Director James Comey released his now-infamous
October 27th letter in substantial part because he had determined that “word of
the new emails [found on Anthony Weiner’s computer]...was sure to leak out.”
Comey worried that if the leak occurred at a time when the nature and
evidentiary value of the “new” emails was unknown, he “risked being accused of
misleading Congress and the public ahead of an election.”

By October 27th, the FBI had had access to Weiner’s computer—which it
originally received from NYPD—since October 3rd, during which interval the
Bureau had both the time and IT know-how to determine that the “new” emails in
its possession were in fact duplicate emails from accounts already revealed to
the Bureau by Clinton, her aide Huma Abedin, and the State Department.

However, when Comey was briefed
on the case by agents from the New York field office on October 26th, he
discovered that not only had this IT work not been done, but in fact no warrant
to seize the full emails had been sought, no permission to read the emails had
been requested from cooperating witnesses Weiner and Abedin, and indeed nothing
but a summary of the emails’ “meta-data” (non-content header information) had
been prepared by his agents.”

And when they discovered there were emails from Hillary to her aid Huma
Abedin and Weiner’s wife that were also included on the laptop, they immediately
began pushing Comey to reveal the links that might possibly be material evidence
in his probe of Hillary’s use of a private email server.

And both polling,
poll
analysis, and internet
meta-data (see below) confirm that the Comey Letter was sufficient to hand
Trump the 77,143
combined votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that won him the
election. We know from the statements made by Giuliani, and from numerous
statements made by Trump on the campaign trail, that both men believed the
Clinton email server case could be leveraged to ensure Clinton’s defeat in
November. It turns out they were correct.

I first began writing about the greater lawlessness among Republicans wanting
to maintain power in the face of a declining party membership in 2002, when it
became obvious that the GW Bush administration was cooking the CIA findings on
Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to justify their invasion and coopting of
Iraq’s oil fields. The underlying reason was once again greed, led by Vice
President Cheney’s oil company friends who thought they would be able to control
Iraq’s vast oil reserves.

Then they turned the Iraqi economy into a conservative dream, a tariff-less
free enterprise entity that allowed cheaper US imports to put many Iraqi
companies out of business, and was a major reason for the Sunni-led uprising and
civil war that ensued.

We now know that on January 12th, the DOJ announced that the
Inspector General would be investigating the sequence of events comprising
the Prince-Giuliani-Trump conspiracy. Inspector General Horowitz noted that
within his brief was investigation of the series of leaks that occurred between
the NYPD, the FBI, and outside entities—including, we can surmise based on
context, the Trump campaign.

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Harlan Russell Green, Editor/Publisher

Harlan Green is a Mortgage Broker in Santa Barbara, California since the 1980s and economist. As Editor/Publisher of PopularEconomics.com, he has published 3 weekly columns-- Popular Economics Weekly, Financial FAQs, and The Mortgage Corner-since 2000, and is a featured business columnist for Huffington Post. Please refer to the populareconomics.com website for further information.